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  Exciting news! Zazzle has just introduced new 12 oz USA Premium Roast Coffee you can sent friends or family for occasions or just because!  Choice of ground or beans. Cafe or Decafe. Choice of Dark, Medium or Light! Bagged by a premium coffee maker in the northwest. Here's the product information from Zazzle about the product: All coffee produced in the Pacific Northwest, USA Certified as specialty coffee by Specialty Coffee Association (Q-Grade of 80+) Average shipping date of ~10 days from roast date ensuring peak freshness All-over printing giving full control over the entire exterior packaging Small batch roasting to ensure quality Available in Whole Bean or Pre-Ground (with no extra charge!) Distributed by: Roastify LLC, Bend OR, 97702 Coffee Net Weight: 12oz (340g) Be sure to note you coffee order may take up to 10 days to arrive! So, here's some of my best Roast Coffee designs!  Click on the pictures to be taken to the product page! Congrats to the Newlyweds Coff...

Today's Finds are from my Pinterest  Coffee Shoppe Board ! And here's a few Coffee things I love: Vintage Cafe Espresso Bistro Paris Canvas Print Created by Color Bakery of Vermont! Espresso Neon Phone Case Created by photographer-artist, Carrie's Camera ! Coffee Floating Colors Clock! For more visit Cricket Diane! Love Pugs? Then you'll love this "Got Coffee?" Pug Mug ! Created by Pug Minded Designs! Be sure to visit the artists links and see all their works!

Have your Turkey yet? I saw frozen Turkeys in passing carts last weekend when we were shopping. Do you cook a whole bird? Bake it? Fry it? Buy one ready-cooked or smoked? Since it's just for myself and my husband, what I do is just a couple Turkey thighs in a slow-cooker, which is faster then a oven and makes them more tender. Enough Turkey.... On to  Mama Kat's Prompt for Today: "List 5 Things That Bring You Comfort."   #1) Reading the Bible & Prayer : I get a lot of comfort from hearing the Lord Jesus through scripture and reviewing the many promises He has given me. I have a stack of index cards, full of them.   #2) My Husband : He's just a really warm, comforting person. That's one reason why I married him. Sunni #3)   My Cat, Sunni : She likes to lay on my chest near my face and I find listening to her steady purr very comforting and relaxing. She especially, at night, just before I go to sleep. #4)   A Good...

Welcome back! It's almost August! Time does fly! It's stormy again today and was thundering. It's a local coastal storm. The cat doesn't like the sound of rain and thunder. She used to crouch under a stool, butt, in more recent years, tends to ask me to follow her to the back bedroom and have me lay down with her to stroke and comfort her. It gave me a chance to close my eyes and rest for 20 minutes. I'm a little tired today because we got to bed late. After last night's Bible study here at the house, one of the young men wanted to stay and talk about some stuff going on in his life.  We talked from 9 to midnight. Anyway, today's healthy eating topic is coconut!   Generally coconut is either a "love it" or "hate it" affair. I can't say I've ever met anyone who was neutral about liking coconut. But I happen to be one of those happy people who love it. I wasn't the only coconut lover in the family. Whenever we had a box ...

Today's topic is another common cabinet spice: Cinnamon! The number one benefit of Cinnamon is it can lower your blood sugar levels. A mere 1/4 to 1/2 teaspoon a day, daily is enough to do the job with regular use. *It is noteably helpful for Type 2 Disbetes and in testing Type 2 subjects daily cinnamon intake of the above amount in 6 weeks resulted in a 27%  decrease in fasting blood sugar. A reduced level in bad and total choresterol and triglcyerides was also shown. So getting more cinnamon in your diet is a win-win for everyone!  [*cited from Healing Spices by Dr.Bharat B. Aggarwal] Ground Cinnamon One thing we do, is when we're making coffee, we shake cinnamon onto the grounds before turning on the coffee maker! This can be done with either plain or even flavored coffees---the cinnamon really enriches the taste! Basically it's the cheap-mans way of having flavored coffee! And it's a quick way to add cinnamon to your life! We ...

Yup, time for another tale prompted by Mama Kat. Today's prompt of choice is #5: "What is the one 'vice' you can't give up?"    Quite a number of years ago, in the mid 90's, we visited some friends, who were living in North Carolina at the time and what makes it memorable is the wife declaring that she, "had to give up eating chocolate because it had caffeine in it."  Apparently she was under doctor's orders not to have any sort of caffeine. Why, I don't know, but back then there was a general "caffeine scare" going on. Of course, a lot of scientific back-peddling has occurred since then, as it so often does, and science now declares coffee and chocolate, particularly dark chocolate, as having health benefits. Though those fancy coffee drinks full of sugar and all kinds of high-calorie stuff other then plain coffee are fattening rather then healthy.      I mention this, because if I'm going to call anything I unrepentan...